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Christopher Sardellicsardelli@thelancasternews.com
More details have emerged about a shooting along Pardue Street earlier this week, though officers are still looking for their suspect.
Lancaster Police Capt. Scott Grant said officers continue to follow leads as they search for Shibre Ikee Truesdale, 20, who is wanted by the police department on charges of attempted murder and possession of a firearm during a violent crime.
“No, he has not been arrested yet,” Grant said. “We are actually out looking for him right now.”

Nancy Parsons
Landmark News Service
GREAT FALLS – A local woman was seriously injured in an accident on her job Monday.
Ashley Whittle, 24, was hurt when her hair became tangled in a machine at Morcon Inc.
Great Falls Interim Fire Chief David Galloway said a member of the fire department responded to Morcon Inc. on James Baker Boulevard about 8:30 a.m.

R. Michael Smith
SCDJJ Director of
Community Development
The S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) has made progress in recent years establishing programs aimed at reducing juvenile delinquency and recidivism.
DJJ’s goal is to intervene in young people’s lives before they engage in delinquent behavior and in turn become involved in the juvenile court system.
One such program the agency offers to elementary and middle school students in Chester, Fairfield, and Lancaster counties is PROJECT: Adopt-A-Class (PAAC).

Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
Crystal Roney keeps a pistol on her bedroom night stand.
During road trips, it’s in her car’s glove compartment. And now, she wants to have it on her body at all times.
When Roney moved into a new house about two years ago, she decided to take a gun-safety class, given that she’d be living alone.
But after hearing the news of recent murders, assaults and other violent crimes, Roney wants to take things a step further by obtaining a concealed-weapons permit.

Reece Murphyrmurphy@thelancasternews.com
This year’s Lancaster County School District spelling bee was a nail-biter in a way only those who have witnessed such academic competitions can fully understand.
The scene: Afternoon of Jan. 26. Fifteen of the county’s best elementary and middle school spellers on stage at the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Stevens Auditorium.
The prize: Recognition as the district’s best speller and a chance to compete in the 58th Charlotte Observer Regional Spelling Bee.

By Michele Roberts
For The Lancaster News
A local man who recently died has been hailed an American hero.
Lancaster resident Carl Gandy died Jan. 25 at the age of 88. During his life he was a business owner, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Gandy served in the Army during World War II. As a member of the 4th Infantry Division, he and his comrades pushed their way across the French countryside, along with other Allied forces on their way to Berlin.

Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
Lancaster police have the names of two people accused of robbing and sexually assaulting a Lancaster woman last week in Chester County.
The woman, 33, was driven to the Springs Memorial Hospital emergency room Saturday afternoon to be treated after she was reportedly assaulted by two men, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
A hospital nurse told an officer that the woman said she was pistol whipped and that the men then used the gun to sexually assault her, the report said.

Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
A Lancaster woman told police she was forced to the ground and robbed by two people early Saturday morning on Pleasant Hill Street.
The woman, 40, was walking in the area of Pleasant Hill and St. Paul streets shortly after midnight Saturday when she was approached by a man and a woman, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
She said they forced her to the ground. The man then took $40 and a lottery ticket from her rear pants pocket, the report said.

U.S. District 5 Rep. Mick Mulvaney’s office
U.S. District 5 Rep. Mick Mulvaney is giving more than $160,000 – about 11 percent of the money his office was allotted in 2011 – to help pay down the national debt. Mulvaney is joining other freshmen congressmen, who are also returning their leftover money.
The eight conservative freshmen members are asking Speaker John Boehner to direct his office’s leftover money – about $1.5 million – to do the same.